Sorry, the 'Destruction of Baghdad destroyed the learning' is categorically false. If you will look at history, Islamic scholars kept churning out knowledge qui

Sorry, the 'Destruction of Baghdad destroyed the learning' is categorically false. If you will look at history, Islamic scholars kept churning out knowledge quite a bit after the destruction, and in terms of academic achievements, it doesn't seem to have had a LOT of interruption. My history professor explained it this way: If Cambridge/Boston MA area were to disappear tomorrow, we would most definitely lose a LOT in terms of knowledge and research. It would however not be a beginning of a dark age. I have been led to believe that modern historians mostly agree that the traditional interpretation of the sacking of Baghdad as being the ending of the Islamic Enlightenment is mostly overblown.